I think it requires not only youth, but genius, to read this paper.

I don't mean to imply that it required any whatsoever to talk what I have here written down.
It did demand a certain amount of memory, and such command of the English tongue as is given by a common school education.

So much I do claim.

But here I have related, at length, a string of trivialities.

You must have the imagination of a poet to transfigure them.